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Plot Summary:
To try and overcome a lifetime of bitterness and resentment, an older lady decides to climb a mountain in Scotland.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, nostalgic
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Chinese Grandma (2010)
Plot Summary:
The life of two old people Katya and Pasha is turning upside down after arrival of Katya's sister Mila who is definitely not an ordinary average person.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Ultimate Expedition (2018)
Plot Summary:
Nine strangers are brought together to summit a 20,000-foot mountain in the Peruvian Andes. With each step, these novice climbers will push themselves to their limits and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 31 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 86%
The Last Bus (2021)
Plot Summary:
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Scotland to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, road movie
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The Fisherman's Diary (2020)
Plot Summary:
A 12-year old girl - Ekah (Faith Fidel) is inspired by the story of the youngest Noble Peace Prize Winner - Malala Yousafzai's. She is determined to go to school in a village of fisherman where the education of a girl child is considered to be a taboo. Her burning drive and determination to break this old adage gets her embroiled with her father's - Solomon (Kang Quintus) past experience with girl child education.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Drama
Country: Cameroon
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational
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The Honor List (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four girls sink a time capsule in a lake with a list of things they want to do before graduation, but they all go separate ways before graduating. When a tragedy strikes, they reunite to find the capsule and complete the bucket list.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, touching, captivating, disturbing, deep, sex comedy, teen comedy
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Never Too Late (2020)
Plot Summary:
It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselves sharing a new prison, The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. Each of the boys has an unrealised dream they want to achieve, so they band together to devise a plan to escape their new hell. But the rules of engagement have changed. In fact, they can’t even remember what they were—and that’s half the problem.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: entertaining, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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After Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set in the port town of Dover in the South-East of England, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English Channel in Calais.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, spiritual, independent film, queer cinema
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Keep Going (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sybille, a divorced mother, can't stand watching her teenage son Samuel slip into a violent and meaningless life. She is also struggling with her own demons, past and present. As a last resort, she takes Samuel on a long journey across Kyrgyzstan.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, road movie
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Enter the Wild (2018)
Plot Summary:
On a trek to find the world's rarest tree, Dylan and his friends descend into harsh ravines and canyons. As the wilderness closes in on them they come face to face with hard truths about friendship, unrequited love, and the consequences of letting go of the past.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, weird
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Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)
Plot Summary:
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Wild Oats (2016)
Plot Summary:
Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50.000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Mountain Miracle (2017)
Plot Summary:
A girl struggling with asthma is taken to a clinic in South Tyrol to be cured. After some time she decides to get out of this hell (that's how she feels about it) and soon she'll meet a new friend. Together they try to reach the peak of a mountain where, according to an old custom, she can be healed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, psychological, serious, captivating, educational
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Everest: The Summit of the Gods (2016)
Plot Summary:
Makoto Fukamachi is a Japanese cameraman. He finds an old camera on a backstreet of Nepal. The camera might possibly solve the mystery of whether George Mallory became the first person to successfully climb Mount Everest on June 8, 1924 or not. Pursuing the old camera's past, Makoto Fukamachi meets legendary Alpinist Joji Habu. Joji Habu is isolated from other people because of his reckless and thoughtless personality.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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One Mile Above (2011)
Plot Summary:
Shuhao is a 24 year old Taiwanese university graduate. His older brother Shuwei, whom he has idolized since childhood, dies on a bicycle ride to Lhasa. He decides to complete Shuwei's journey, hoping to prove himself through this challenging trip. Shuhao's inexperience almost sees him headed over a cliff one dark night. Food poisoning nearly costs him his life just after surviving an attack by a pack of menacing Tibetan Mastiffs. In the end, Shuhao arrives in Lhasa to see the Potola Palace. His lonely journey, filled with laughter and tears, brings him to the discovery of a new purpose in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, realistic, captivating, road movie
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, atmospheric, suspense
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In the Forests of Siberia (2016)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with the hectic, senseless world he lives in, Teddy decides to settle down alone in Siberia, in the midst of winter, in a hut by the shore of Lake Baikal. After an initial period of elation in front of the splendor and magic of unspoiled nature, Teddy soon finds himself confronted with the less glossy side of things : solitude, extreme cold, the necessity to find food, danger... One night Teddy gets lost in a blizzard and would be doomed to a certain death, were it not for Aleksei, a Russian convict living hidden away in the forest nearby, who rescues him in extremis. Friendship soon blossoms between the two men.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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The Himalayas (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events, renowned mountaineer UM Hong-gil sets out on a mission to Everest to retrieve his late junior climber's body and faces the greatest challenge of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, scenic
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The Art of Travel (2008)
Plot Summary:
High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, sincere, bleak, road movie, serious, emotional
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Seventeen (2019)
Plot Summary:
To find his therapy dog, a 17-year-old escapes from juvie and embarks on a journey of reconnection with his brother and grandmother through Cantabria.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Moon Rock for Monday (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set in Sydney, 1999, after an unlikely encounter at a train station, a young girl befriends a fugitive teenage boy and they travel to visit a moon rock that the girl believes will heal her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sentimental, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, road movie, independent film
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Strangers in Good Company (1990)
Plot Summary:
A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, independent film
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Uyare (2019)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring pilot fights for her future -- and justice -- after surviving an acid attack from her abusive boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Cry Macho (2021)
Plot Summary:
Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, road movie, inspirational, suspense, anamorphic, neo western
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Wildlike (2014)
Plot Summary:
Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous journey of sleeping in cars and breaking into hotel rooms, she’s drawn to Rene, a lonesome backpacker looking for tranquility in the wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, captivating
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Land (2021)
Plot Summary:
Edee, in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of that uncertainty, retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies. After a local hunter brings her back from the brink of death, she must find a way to live again.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, serious
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Wolf Totem (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, thought provoking, dramatic, historical drama
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Leave No Trace (2018)
Plot Summary:
A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, motivational, road movie, philosophical, captivating, thought provoking, intellectual, depressing
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The Beckoning Silence (2007)
Plot Summary:
In The Beckoning Silence, Joe Simpson, whose amazing battle for survival featured in the multi-award winning "Touching the Void", travels to the treacherous North Face of the Eiger to tell the story of one of mountaineering's most epic tragedies. As a child, it was this story and that of one of the climbers in particular, that first captured Simpson's imagination and inspired him to take up mountaineering.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, scenic
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Scream of Stone (1991)
Plot Summary:
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is considered to be the world's best sport climber (having just won an indoor 'world championship,' an event depicted in the opening scene). They plan to climb 'Cerro Torre,' in the Patagonia region of South America, near the Argentinian/Chilean border, one of the world's most difficult mountains, especially considering the extreme weather conditions common to the area.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Canada, Italy, Argentina, UK, South Africa
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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A Walk in the Woods (2015)
Plot Summary:
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scenic, light, road movie, humorous, melancholic, romantic, touching, social, cute, sentimental